WDW (Walt Disney World), Orlando FL

What can we say about Disney that isn’t already on all the travel blogs? However, I will drop a few notes here about Fort Wilderness. This was Owen’s first trip to Disney, so we decided that we wanted to camp at a Disney property and after 2 hours of searching for a five day window back in March, I was lucky to actually find five days at the end of September (NOTHING available for October-November), so we essentially planned our Florida trips around this Disney window! But it all worked out really well. 

Fort Wilderness is - of course, magical - and it better be given the amount you pay for a slab of concrete to park your RV. That said, we loved:

• Not driving anywhere for 5 days (Tom especially appreciated this). Since it’s a Disney property, you can take a boat over to Magic Kingdom, and a bus anywhere else. And if you don’t have your own golf cart like 90% of the campers seemed to have, they run buses throughout Fort Wilderness. Owen had the scheduled memorized within the first couple hours of our arrival.

• The pool WITHOUT the water slide - never busy, and open until 11 p.m.

• Nightly campfires with s’mores and Disney movies - of course.

• We did a 3 day pass (Hollywood Studios, Magic Kingdom and Epcot). We could’ve done a 4th day and done Animal Kingdom but we were glad we didn’t cram it in as we wouldn’t have had time to enjoy Fort Wilderness.

• While they had a couple of restaurants on site, one night they had a bunch of food trucks on site, which was a fun addition.

Our favorite park was Hollywood Studios, and during this time of year, the lines were not bad at all. We did get in line early for the Rise of the Resistance attraction (so, so good) but other wait times were anywhere between no wait (esp. at Epcot) and 30 minutes.

Disney - check!